1957 in music

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Elvis Presley in 1957 film "Jailhouse Rock".

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1957.

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Events

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  • September 19 – Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino". This year, she is also the first female recording artist to have her own fan club.
  • September 20 – Jean Sibelius dies aged 91 at Ainola, his home in Finland, having completed no significant compositions for thirty years; at the time of his death, a performance of his Symphony No. 5 is being given in Helsinki under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent.<ref name="SDeath">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • November 25–27 – The first two Hollywood motion pictures starring Pat Boone, Bernadine and April Love, are released.
  • Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl", backed with "Dancin' Wild", hits #49 on the Billboard pop charts. Garfunkel is Tom Graph (so called because he like to write the pop charts out on graph paper) and Simon is Jerry Landis, a pseudonym he used during his early 1960s solo recordings. They tour for eighteen months before retiring to become college students and then reforming in 1963 as Simon & Garfunkel.
  • The Casals Festival is founded in Puerto Rico.
  • When Nat King Cole's television show is unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine becomes the first artist to cross TV's color line, becoming the first white artist to appear as a guest, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000. Other top performers follow suit, including Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett, but, despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to pick up a national sponsor.
  • Gorni Kramer makes his first appearance on Italian television, in Il Musichiere.
  • Maria Callas is introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
  • "Suíte do Pescador" is composed by Dorival Caymmi.
  • Actress Debbie Reynolds earns a gold record for her song Tammy, which is the best-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957 in the United States. This song from the motion picture Tammy and the Bachelor is also nominated for an Academy Award.

Bands formed

Albums released

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Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1957.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock 1957 US UK 1 – Jan 1958, US BB 1 – Oct 1957, US BB 1 of 1957, Canada 1 – Oct 1957, DDD 1 of 1957, POP 1 of 1957, Europe 2 of the 1950s, Scrobulate 2 of rockabilly, RYM 3 of 1957, Netherlands 5 – Jan 1974, France 10 – Dec 1971, US CashBox 11 of 1957, South Africa 11 of 1958, AFI 21, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1957, Party 54 of 1999, Italy 60 of 1958, Rolling Stone 67, Acclaimed 192, Belgium 214 of all time
2 Paul Anka Diana 1957 Canada UK 1 – Aug 1957, US BB 1 – Jul 1957, Canada 1 – Jul 1957, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Jun 1957, Italy 2 of 1958, Poland 9 – Apr 1989, US CashBox 13 of 1957, US BB 14 of 1956, POP 14 of 1956, Europe 17 of the 1950s, RYM 17 of 1957, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1957, DDD 36 of 1957
3 Elvis Presley All Shook Up 1957 US UK 1 – Jun 1957, US BB 1 – Apr 1957, Canada 1 – May 1957, RYM 5 of 1957, US CashBox 8 of 1957, DDD 11 of 1957, Scrobulate 12 of rock & roll, US BB 13 of 1957, POP 13 of 1957, Netherlands 33 – Jan 2005, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1957, Europe 78 of the 1950s, Party 179 of 2007, Rolling Stone 352, Acclaimed 835
4 Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire 1957 US UK 1 – Dec 1957, RYM 1 of 1957, US BB 2 – Dec 1957, Canada 2 – Dec 1957, DDD 5 of 1957, US BB 14 of 1958, POP 14 of 1958, South Africa 15 of 1958, Netherlands 27 – Sep 1989, Scrobulate 63 of oldies, RIAA 64, Europe 76 of the 1950s, Acclaimed 86, Rolling Stone 96, Party 242 of 1999
5 Danny & the Juniors At the Hop 1957 US US BB 1 – Dec 1957, Canada 1 – Dec 1957, UK 3 – Jan 1958, US BB 3 of 1958, POP 3 of 1958, South Africa 6 of 1958, US CashBox 10 of 1958, RYM 11 of 1957, DDD 21 of 1957, Europe 73 of the 1950s, RIAA 250, Acclaimed 728

US No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of US BillboardTemplate:'s charts in 1957.

First week Number of weeks Title Artist
February 9, 1957 3 "Too Much" Elvis Presley
March 2, 1957 4 "Young Love" Tab Hunter
March 30, 1957 1 "Party Doll" Buddy Knox
April 6, 1957 1 "Round and Round" Perry Como
April 13, 1957 8 "All Shook Up" Elvis Presley
June 3, 1957 5 "Love Letters in the Sand" Pat Boone
June 10, 1957 1 "Bernardine" Pat Boone
July 8, 1957 7 "Teddy Bear" Elvis Presley
August 26, 1957 2 "Tammy" Debbie Reynolds
September 9, 1957 1 "Diana" Paul Anka
September 16, 1957 1 "Tammy" Debbie Reynolds
September 23, 1957 1 "That'll Be the Day" The Crickets
September 30, 1957 2 "Honeycomb" Jimmie Rodgers
October 14, 1957 1 "Wake Up Little Susie" The Everly Brothers
October 21, 1957 7 "Jailhouse Rock" Elvis Presley
December 9, 1957 2 "You Send Me" Sam Cooke
December 23, 1957 2 "April Love" Pat Boone

Top hits on record

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Classical music

Premieres

Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Arnold, Malcolm Horn Concerto No. 2 1957-07-17 Cheltenham Music Festival, UK Brain / Hallé Orchestra – Arnold<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Bainton, Edgar Symphony No. 3 1957-03-25Template:Efn Sydney, Australia Sydney Symphony – Heinze<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Barraqué, Jean Piano Sonata 1957-10-28 ParisTemplate:Efn Loriod<ref>Template:IRCAM work</ref>
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Crumb, George Sonata for Solo Cello 1957-03-15 Ann Arbor, Michigan Doppmann<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Davies, Peter Maxwell Clarinet Sonata 1957-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Dobrée, Davies<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Hartmann, Karl Amadeus Versuch eines Requiem (Symphony No. 1)Template:Efn 1957-06-22 Vienna, Austria Rössl-Majdan / Vienna Symphony – Sanzogno<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Henze, Hans Werner Maratona, ballet suite 1957-02-08 Cologne, Germany SWF Symphony – Rosbaud<ref>Template:IRCAM work</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Ives, Charles From the Salvation Army (String Quartet No. 1) (1900) 1957-04-24 New York City Kohon Quartet<ref>Template:IRCAM work</ref>
Larsson, Lars-Erik Concertini: No. 4, for Bassoon 1957-12-10 Gothenburg, Sweden Rönnerbäck / Gothenburg Radio Orchestra – Staern<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Martinů, Bohuslav Piano Sonata 1957–?-? Düsseldorf, Germany Serkin<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Matsudaira, Yoritsune Figures sonores 1957-06-01 Zürich, Switzerland (ISCM Festival) [unknown orchestra] – Schmid<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Nono, Luigi Varianti 1957-10-20 Donaueschingen, Germany (Musiktage) SWF Symphony – Rosbaud<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony No. 4 (2nd version) (1948) 1957-01-05Template:Efn Moscow USSR State Symphony – Gennady Rozhdestvensky<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Rubbra, Edmund Symphony No. 7 1957-10-01 Birmingham, UK City of Birmingham Symphony – Panufnik<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Shostakovich, Dmitri Piano Concerto No. 2 1957-05-10 Moscow M. Shostakovich / USSR State Symphony – Anosov<ref name="online1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Shostakovich, Dmitri Symphony No. 11 ("The Year 1905") 1957-10-30 Moscow USSR State Symphony – Rakhlin<ref name="online1"/>
Simpson, Robert Symphony No. 2 1957-07-16 Cheltenham Music Festival, UK Hallé Orchestra – Barbirolli<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Stockhausen, Karlheinz Klavierstück XI 1957-04-22Template:Efn New York (Carl Fischer Hall)<ref>Michael Kurtz, Stockhausen: A Biography, translated by Richard Toop (London: Faber and Faber, 1992): 87–88. Template:ISBN (cloth); Template:ISBN (pbk).</ref> Tudor<ref>Imke Misch and Markus Bandur (eds.), Karlheinz Stockhausen bei den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Darmstadt 1951–1996: Dokumente und Briefe (Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 2001): 147, 166, 169–172. Template:ISBN.</ref>
Stravinsky, Igor Agon 1957-12-01 Los Angeles Robert Craft
Takemitsu, Tōru Requiem for Strings 1957-06-20 Tokyo Tokyo Philharmonic – Ueda<ref>Template:IRCAM work</ref>
Tubin, Eduard Double Bass Concerto 1957-03-08 Bogotá, Colombia Verdaguer / Colombia National Symphony – Roots<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Villa-Lobos, Heitor Piano Concerto No. 3 1957-08-24 Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro Template:Ill / Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira – Carvalho<ref>Villa-Lobos, sua obra Template:Webarchive, Version 1.0. (MinC / IBRAM, and the Museu Villa-Lobos, 2009; based on the third edition, 1989): 57–58.</ref>
Xenakis, Iannis Pithoprakta 1957-03-08 Template:Ill Bavarian Radio Symphony – Scherchen<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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